Thursday, February 23, 2012

More Peninsular thoughts - French OOB

To give more tactical options on the tabletop, we will need to tweak the scale to a 1 battalion = 2 bases, 1 squadron = 2 bases, and 1 artillery base = 4 guns.

The smallest manoeuvre unit will be the brigade. The 3 French Corps in the game will have a total of 178 bases of infantry in 15 brigades (4 to 6 brigades in a Corps), and probably 12 bases of cavalry and 4 of artillery per Corps.

French
C-i-C Massena [3]

2nd Corps - Reynier [2]

1st Division - Pierre Merle [2]

Sarrut's Bde 12/2

Graindorge's Bde 12/2

2nd Division - Etienne Heudelet [2]

Foy's Bde 12/2Arnaud's Bde 12/2

Cav Bde 6/2
6 guns

6th Corps - Ney [3]

1st Division - Marchand [2]

Maucune's Bde 12/2

Marcognet's Bde 12/2

2nd Division - Mermet [2]

Bardet's Bde 12/2Labassée's
Brigade 12/2

3rd Division - Loison [2]

Simon's Bde 12/2Ferey's Brigade 12/2

Cav Bde 6/2
6 guns

8th Corps - Junot [2]

1st Division - Clausel [2]

Menard's Bde 12/2Taupin's Bde
12/2Godard's Bde 12/2

2nd Division – Solignac [2]

Gratien's Bde 12/2Thomières' Bde 12/2

Cav Bde 6/2
6 guns

The number [X] behind a commander's name is is command rating,
and the numbers for each Bde represents the starting number of bases and
the 'flag' or quality rating of the unit.

The Brigades should have a mix of Ligne and Legere bases (probably 2:1 ratio, since that's what I have).